Two Bids were submitted for the 2024 conference. 

- Porto, Portugal
- Cork, Ireland
After presenting the  bids to the ISAP executive committee, a vote was taken and the successful party was PORTO, PORTUGAL. 

The conference will be held 18-22 June 2024 and it is being planned as an hybrid event.

Do you have an idea for an article in our next newsletter?  If so, we invite you to contribute to the first issue of the ISAP 2022 Newsletter.

DEADLINE: March 30th 2022

Please find the newsletter article submission guidelines here.

Online Training Course 9-10 February 2022 09:00 – 16:45 GMT:

Algaculture for Biotechonology 

CCAP Online Training Course

With continuing Covid19 constraints, the annual CCAP CPD course will be delived online, via MS Teams. The course is aimed at students, technicians, early career researchers, industry professionals and algae enthusiasts. You are invited to register for this unique course comprising:

Short lectures from our SAMS experts and External speakers on:

Algal Biodiversity & Taxonomy

Nutrition

Photosynthesis

Microalgae Biotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges

Molecular Phycology and Bioinformatics

Large scale microalgal culture

Metabolomics

Practical Demonstrations by our technical experts on:

Growth media preparation

Strain Isolation

Sub-culturing

Enumeration

Cryopreservation

CCAP’s algal scale up facility (CCAP-ARIES)

Opportunities for discussion, questions and networking will be timetabled.

This training is being financially supported by the British Phycological Society (BPS) and Algae-UK, however, a fee of £50 to cover costs will be charged.

For further information and how to apply, see: https://www.ccap.ac.uk/index.php/algaculture-for-biotechnology-online-training-course/

Online Training Course on 28 September 2021

Revealing Algae Biotechnological Potentials to Contribute to Sustainable Blue Growth in Mediterranean

The National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies (INSTM), in association with the Tunisian Association for Scientific Information (ATIS) and funded by GlobalSeaweedSTAR (GSSTAR) and the International Society of Applied Phycology (ISAP), are excited to announce a one-day online training course on 28 September 2021.

For more information and program, click here.

Free registration until 27 September 2021 - please click here. 

Firstly, we would like to thank the outgoing Executive Committee for all their dedication to the ISAP foundation. The foundation has definitely evolved under the leadership of Dr. Céline Rebours. THANK YOU!

Finally, we are excited to introduce the new ISAP Executive Committee (EC) members who were all nominated and elected by the ISAP subscribers! You can find out more about our new EC here.

We wish our newly elected EC a great tenure!

Voting is open from 17 June to 17 July 2021!

During the ISAP2021 Virtual Conference (14 May to 13 August 2021), a new Executive Committee will be elected. Any good standing ISAP subscriber, nominated by at least one ISAP subscriber, can be elected as member of the Executive Committee (EC). The EC is composed of 18 persons that will work together with the President, two Vice-Presidents and Assistant President to achieve ISAP goals for the next three years.

A list of nominees was presented at the General Assembly of the ISAP scheduled to take place on 15 June 2021. Information on the list of nominees, including a short biography and their motivation for joining the ISAP EC, is available to all the ISAP subscribers in the website section only accessible by our ISAP subscribers here.

If you have not received an email with the link to the online voting system, please contact us on applied.phycologysoc@gmail.com.

We have extended the deadline for you to submit your nominations for candidates for the election of the ISAP 2021-2024 Executive Committee to Tuesday 1 June 2021.

During the ISAP2021 Virtual Conference (14 May to 13 August 2021), a new Executive Committee will be elected. Any good standing ISAP subscriber, nominated by at least one ISAP subscriber, can be elected as member of the Executive Committee (EC). The EC is composed of 18 persons that will work together with the President, two Vice-Presidents and Assistant President to achieve ISAP goals for the next three years.

For more information about the organization and governance of the ISAP, please consult the ISAP Guidelines in the website section accessible to ISAP subscribers only: here

A list of nominees will be presented at the General Assembly of the ISAP scheduled to take place on 15 June 2021. Information on the list of nominees, including a short biography and their motivation for joining the ISAP EC, will be available to all the ISAP subscribers in the website section only accessible by our ISAP subscribers.

Election will be conducted online between 15 June and the 15 July 2021.

We invite you to send us the following information for each nominee to allow each subscriber to get to know the candidates and make his/her choice during the election process:

1. Name, affiliation, country
2. a short bio (maximum 1 page)
3. a cover letter of maximum 1 page to explain their motivations to join the ISAP Executive Committee.
4. a recent picture of the nominee

Please send your nominations to applied.phycologysoc@gmail.com before 1 June 2021.

If your subscription has expired we invite you to renew it here before sending your nominations.